Model years Chevrolet Suburban 1500
2013 Chevrolet Suburban 1500
This year drew an ordinary 118 complaints for a Chevrolet Suburban 1500 — the model's median is 59. What they were about is the unusual part: 27.1% of them mention crack, against 7.1% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 118 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 59 |
| Involving a crash | 2 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 4/5 |
| EPA combined | 17 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- crack — 27.1% of this year's complaints, against 7.1% across the model's other years (3.8×). Owners wrote it as: crack, adjacent, piece, concerns.
- airbag — 25.4% of this year's complaints, against 6.3% across the model's other years (4×). Owners wrote it as: airbag, passenger airbag, near, correctly.
- dashboard — 28.8% of this year's complaints, against 9.4% across the model's other years (3.1×). Owners wrote it as: dashboard, dashboard cracked, dashboard crack, airbag deployment.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
What owners wrote
THE DASHBOARD NEAR THE PASSENGER SIDE AIRBAG HAS SPLIT/CRACKED. I AM CONCERNED THAT IT COULD COMPRISE THE DEPLOYMENT OF THE AIRBAG IN AN ACCIDENT GIVEN THE LOCATION OF THE CRACK. THE VEHICLE WAS LESS THEN 2 YEARS OLD WHEN THE CRACKING BEGAN, BUT CHEVROLET WOUL…
DASHBOARD CRACK APPEARED AT AROUND 68,000 MILES. NO COLLISIONS OR ANY OTHER OBVIOUS CAUSE. I BELIEVE GM HAS NOT FIXED THIS ISSUE THAT HAS PLAGUED OTHER GM VEHICLES AND I BELIEVE GM KNOWS IT IS FAULTY BECAUSE THEY OFFERED TO FIX IT AT HALF PRICE. I FULLY EXPECT…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Chevrolet Suburban 1500 was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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